Clinical Engineering Technician
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Kemp Town, The City of Brighton and Hove
Clinical Engineering Technician
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University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Kemp Town, The City of Brighton and Hove
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 1 day ago, 30 Apr | Get your application in today.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
Job ref: aebbff4432c149d98d45e34049a3d0bd
Location ref: Kemp Town, The City of Brighton and Hove
Full Job Description
The Clinical Engineering Department is primarily concerned with providing evaluation and selection, acceptance checks, repair, calibration, and maintenance to a wide range of medical devices and equipment across University Hospitals Sussex NHS trust. The aim is to ensure equipment operates effectively and safely with a minimum of downtime. Clinical equipment covered incorporates electrical, electronic, mechanical, computer software and medical gas systems.
Clinical areas include all general wards, Intensive Care, Special Care Baby Unit, all Theatre modalities, Cardiology, Renal Unit and Equipment Library.
The post holder will carry out servicing, repair, calibration, scheduled preventative maintenance, safety and acceptance testing on a wide range of patient connected medical equipment. The post holder is required to work to high standards of safety and accountability.
The post holder liaises with clinical and other technical staff to identify faults and repair equipment, including working in clinical areas and working with manufacturers, as appropriate.
Main duties of the job
Provide technical services for preventative maintenance, servicing, calibration, inspection, and repair to a wide range of complex and patient-connected medical equipment. Including life support and life saving devices under all conditions of urgency.
Communicate with clinical users to gain a clear understanding of the nature of problems with equipment. Assess the seriousness and implications of the problem and respond appropriately to the urgency of the user request.
Undertake fault-finding. Apply suitable fault-finding techniques to diagnose problems, including those beyond the scope of manufacturer supplied information. Report unusual fault conditions to manufacturers. Exercise judgement to determine the causes of faults in devices with multiple complex and inter-related systems (e.g., electronic, computer and mechanical systems), which may be due to user error, equipment failure or environmental issues (e.g., temperature, humidity, radio frequency).
Rectify equipment faults. Undertake repairs on complex electrical/electronic and mechanical devices to circuit component level if necessary